According to legend, during the Wei and Jin Dynasties, Suixi brewing industry had a certain scale. Ji Kang, the first of the "Seven Sages of Bamboo Forest", and Liu Ling, one of the "Seven Sages", are both from wine countries, and they love drinking and often get drunk. The Book of Jin records that they often ride deer carts and carry a pot of wine on their backs, saying, "Bury me when I die ..." Liu Ling wrote in Ode to Wine Virtue: "Holding a poppy, sipping mash from a cup, bravely resting on their temples, sleeping in a bad mood, carefree and happy." More than a thousand years ago, there was a book in this hotel: Ji Kang asked who was good, and Liu Ling replied that it was high here and made a couplet.
Wang Ji (AD 585-644), who is known as the "Bachelor of Wine Fighting", resigned and lived in seclusion at the foot of Shandong (now Suixi), entertaining himself with wine poems, so he planted millet, made wine, collected medicines and mixed wine. Later, he had deep attainments in winemaking and wrote "Wine Spectrum". There is a poem "sealing pine leaf wine at home and hiding ginseng nectar in a container" in the poem "Collecting Medicine". Bai Juyi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, often climbed mountains by car or went boating in the water, which was poetic and lingering, and formed an indissoluble bond with Suixi landscape. He once called this place his second hometown, leaving a beautiful sentence: "Ren Shuiqing pity the red carp fat, help each other get drunk and step on the fallen flowers." According to legend, the poet and his friends came to Suixi by carriage for the first time. As soon as they arrived in Hedong, He Sui, they smelled the mellow wine, and then said, "When they first entered the wine city, they lived there, and the fragrance filled the long street." Later, they dismounted and waved, leaving a banner of "smell the fragrance and know the taste, stop". During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, Suixi became more and more prosperous. At this time, there are more than ten brewing workshops. The poet Dai Zeng visited Suixi and drank this wine, leaving a wonderful poem: "The orange comes to doubt Chuze, and the wine sells and reads Li Sao."
Ren Roujie, a hermit in Xiangshan, once praised Kouzi wine as "a thousand drunkards next door, ten thyme flowers". Some literati, officials and tycoons often climb the famous mountains here, have a bird's eye view of the clear water and indulge in wine, leaving a story of "being famous in the north of Hebei for three thousand miles, and being the best in the south of the Yangtze River". "It can add courage to ambitious heroes, help poets to be brilliant, and so on. Poetry is made of wine, and wine is passed on by poetry, which complement each other and shine. "
During the Shunzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, Suixi held a "village drinking ceremony" on the fifteenth day of the first month and the first day of October every year. Most of the participants are local officials, squires and wine shop owners. They congratulated the workshop first, then tasted the wine brought by the workshop owner, made frank comments and identified the advantages and disadvantages. The "rural drinking ceremony" is held twice a year, forming a rural regulation. This may be the earliest method of wine evaluation, which is a hymn of "home is separated from ancient times and modern times, and there is no need to return the pavilion".
Qianlong went down to the south of the Yangtze River and passed by Xuzhou. He wrote the inscription "Back to Li Nanli" and gave it to Gao Jinli, Governor of Liangjiang, who wrote it in Xiangshan Xiantong Temple. Later, he gave it to Father Zhang in Suzhou. After the job was done, they drank wine and enjoyed the snow upstairs in Xiangshan Temple. I heard that after seeing the momentum and drinking customs of the wine country, I wrote: Snow Mountain people rely on jade to fly to Xiaogu Lake every year.
During the period from Jiaqing to Guangxu, the reputation of Kouzi wine was greatly improved, and the development of Suixi brewing industry promoted the development of commerce, construction and agriculture, forming a situation of competition among 72 workshops. Tian Jinsong, the first secretary of the county party committee after liberation, knew the magnificent scenery at that time, and once wrote the quatrain "Seventy-two springs lead to the sea, and Suixi is Brewmaster Cave".
In the early years of the Republic of China, wineries flourished. In the early years of the Republic of China, Suixi wine industry advanced by leaps and bounds, its output doubled and its market was broad. Grain merchants and wine merchants from Shanghai, Hangzhou and Wuxi gathered here. Local farmers also engage in trafficking, carrying baskets and barreling, and sell Suixi wine in all directions. At this time, there are 72 brewing workshops all over the street, and there is a folk song circulating in the local area: "Seventy-two Tuancheng, all right in the middle, thousands of altars are top grade, and sweet springs are good." Among them, there are 43 shareholder enterprises, 29 wholly-owned enterprises, nearly 1,000 employees, more than 600 fermenters, more than 60 million yuan in fixed assets (legal tender) and an annual output of more than 3 million Jin. Among them, the famous wineries are Xieju, Yuncheng, Fuquan, Guangyi and Nanyutai.
Throughout ancient and modern times, Kouzi wine has a far-reaching origin and a more brilliant wine culture. There is no doubt that Kouzi wine is a wonderful flower in our national wine forest. It is like a bright pearl embedded in Huaibei!